- Facebook group, Save Our Bully’s UK, exhibits picture of proprietor carrying a muzzle
- Government has launched a ban on the XL Bully breed in England and Wales
- But many house owners disagree with the ban and 600,000 have signed a petition
An XL Bully proprietor has appeared on social media carrying a muzzle in solidarity together with his canine, within the newest of comparable protests by homeowners demanding the Government overturns its recently-introduced ban on the breed, as Northern Ireland considers following swimsuit.
From January 31, it is going to be unlawful in England and Wales to personal XL Bully-type canines with out an exemption after a slew of deadly assaults throughout the UK.
But many have criticised the Government for introducing the brand new regulation, which they disagree with and say has slapped canine homeowners with giant payments and ‘little or no time’ to implement the mandatory modifications.
Earlier this week, Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf made a ‘humiliating U-turn’ on XL bully canines, promising to replicate measures launched by the UK Government south of the Border, having initially resisted the transfer.
Northern Ireland is now additionally considering introducing the ban.
An XL Bully proprietor has appeared on social media carrying a muzzle in solidarity together with his canine, within the newest of comparable protests by homeowners demanding the Government overturns its ban
The photos appeared on a Facebook help group for XL Bully homeowners, Save our Bully’s UK
The submit, which has attracted practically 100 likes, follows a slew of comparable protests because the ban in England and Wales was launched on December 31
Now XL Bully homeowners are overtly popping out in protest and have posted movies or photos of themselves carrying muzzles as they take their canines out.
Posting on a Facebook help discussion board for homeowners, Save our Bully’s UK, person Kayleigh Heath uploaded an image and wrote: ‘They sit for us WE stand for them, lastly cracked the muzzle. Daddy wears one, kuba wears one, no dramas in any respect.’
The submit, which has attracted practically 100 likes, follows a slew of comparable protests because the ban in England and Wales was launched on December 31.
Dog proprietor Mandy Hughes – whose TikTok movies protesting new legal guidelines banning XL Bullies have gone viral – refuses to muzzle her six-year-old bulldog Elsa and has vowed to go to jail quite than apply for an exemption for her.
Footage of the 57-year-old singing lyrics on the platform, which embody, ‘Don’t you set no muzzle on me, cease placing the blame on me’ have racked up half-a-million views.
Ms Hughes, from Allithwaite in Cumbria, rapped in a remixed model of Jack Harlow’s Lovin on Me.
Earlier this month, XL Bully homeowners in Manchester held a protest in opposition to the upcoming ban on the breed that they are saying has turned their lives ‘the wrong way up’.
Owners of the crossbreed pups – the rehoming and breeding of which has now been outlawed – rallied within the metropolis centre, waving indicators that learn ‘do not bully our bullies’ and others that known as for the regulation to be rolled again.
Protesters additionally laid down roses that they mentioned represented the lives of XL Bully canines that had been euthanised within the run as much as the ban on proudly owning the canine and not using a licence that comes into impact on February 1.
Elsewhere, Eamonn Mcgeady, 51, staged a one-man protest in opposition to new XL Bully legal guidelines by carrying a muzzle and guzzling a pint by means of a straw at his native pub.
He and his six-month-old canine Lexi wore matching protecting guards on their go to to the Straw Hat, in Ellesport, Cheshire, earlier this month.
More than 600,000 individuals have additionally signed a UK Parliament petition calling for the ban on the breed – linked to as much as 14 deaths since 2021 – to be overturned.
The authorities introduced in September it might ban XL Bully canines, with Defra itemizing a set of bodily traits used to outline the kind of canine.
It describes the kind as giant and powerfully constructed, with a muscular physique and blocky head, that means comparable canines – comparable to American Bulldogs – may meet the factors.
From January 31, it is going to be an offence to personal an XL Bully until it’s registered on the Index of Exempted Dogs and is compliant with the necessities.
From January 31, it is going to be an offence to personal an XL Bully until it’s registered on the Index of Exempted Dogs and is compliant with the necessities
Dogs with out exemptions may very well be seized and doubtlessly euthanised by the authorities.
Under the modifications, canines which might be a couple of yr previous after this date have to be neutered by June 30 whereas youthful canines should obtain the identical remedy by December 31.
The clampdown adopted a wave of deadly assaults linked to XL Bully-type animals, together with Ian Price who was killed in Stonnall, Staffordshire, in September, and Ian Langley, who died in Sunderland in October.